Brad Pitt Admits to "Diabolical" Fart That Forced Film Set to Evacuate
Brad Pitt didn’t necessarily have the breeziest start to his Hollywood career.
While the two-time Oscar winner is a household name these days, he had to break (wind) onto the scene by doing smaller indie movies, including one where he experienced a stinker of a memory.
“We’re shooting in this little, tiny café. It’s full of the crew, so there’s about 60 people in there,” Brad said on the July 2 episode of Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast. “It’s hot. You can’t breathe and my character hadn’t eaten for days, and he gets this big plate of beans and bacon.”
And as the 61-year-old explained, he chose to fully commit to the character with a method-style approach to the scene.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to do this right,’” he continued. “I just powered down this plate of beans. Take two, do the same thing. Take three, I do the same thing. Take four, I do the same thing.”
Then, all of a sudden, Brad recalled, “Something hit me.”
“There was nothing I could do. I was stuck in this chair, and nature took its course,” he shared, adding, “Then there was nothing. I went, ‘Oh, great. I got away with that one.’”
But moments after Brad thought he scooted the toot, he realized he had celebrated too soon.
“Suddenly, the most diabolical something-something descended on the crew in the whole room,” he said, “and they [fled] the café.”
Learning from his stinky, bean-inducing surprise, he shared, “Ever since then I pace myself.”
While Brad can certainly laugh about the memory now, it’s not the only moment from the beginning of his career that truly stunk. In fact, after appearing in his first speaking role in a 1987 episode of soap opera Another World, he had another humbling experience.
“My picture was in a USA Today and this was a big deal,” he told Travis and Jason. “I sent it to my mom and dad. ‘Look ma, I made it.’”
“I was with a friend and there was a girl he was really attracted to [that lived with] a couple girls,” he continued. “We went over to their apartment. We went through the kitchen to the back door and I looked down at the litter box and there was that picture with a big cat turd on it.”
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